Larissa Judson and Haskell Palmer novel Chapter 890

Meeting Lucius’s cold, hard stare, Damon remembered his objective.

"Fine," he conceded. "Just come back to the house, and I'll sign over the transfer contract."

After hanging up, Damon swallowed hard and forced a sycophantic smile. "Mr. Lincoln, I-I've done as you asked."

Lucius removed his foot, allowing his bodyguards to toss Damon aside like a dirty rag. He then sat on the newly righted sofa to wait for Livia. Thinking about what he had planned for her, his eyes narrowed, and his voice dripped with menace. "Damon, you can now continue what you were about to do with your new plaything."

Damon froze. "What?"

The woman stared at him, her face a mask of terror.

"I said," Lucius repeated slowly, "finish what you started with her. Now."

Damon was dumbfounded. "But Mr. Lincoln, I'm injured, I can't move…"

"If you're not dead, you'll do it!" Lucius snarled. He wanted a live show to warm up before Livia arrived.

Damon didn’t dare refuse. The young woman, who had never witnessed such brutality, was scared out of her mind. If Lucius told her to do something, she would do it. Anything to get out of there alive.

…

Larissa walked up to the door of the room where Fergus was being held. Nightveil pushed it open. The room, which had previously held only Fergus, now contained a second person: Honora.

As Larissa entered, she saw the two of them chatting excitedly.

She reached Honora and yanked her to her feet.

"Larissa, what are you doing…" Honora tried to back away, but Nightveil’s men grabbed her from either side, holding her fast.

Larissa produced a long silver needle and pricked the skin just behind Honora’s left ear before pulling it out again.

On the very tip of the needle, Honora saw a minuscule, gleaming object. She gasped, her eyes wide with horror. "Larissa, what did you do to me?"

Larissa carefully placed the needle in a small, silver-plated box. "Just a micro-listening device my father developed. It's only the size of a grain of sand. I implanted it a while ago, in a subdermal area behind your ear with very few nerve endings."

She snapped the lid shut. "It has a three-meter pickup range and only activates for two hours a day to evade detection sweeps. But I think that was more than enough time to gather a lot of useful information on Lucius, thanks to you."